UP filmmaker makes it to the International Students Creative Award 2014 in Osaka

Neica Dela Cruz didn’t expect that out of 410 submissions, her small-budget short film Lunod would be one of the six finalsits for the International Students Creative Award 2014 in Osaka. Lunod was Dela Cruz’s student thesis and even for a thesis, her budget was, according to the report by InterAksyon, miniscule.

Dela Cruz joined because the requirements were very minimal, adding that she forgot about it immediately after submitting the email. To her surprise, she received a reply a month later, informing her that she qualified for the competition.